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   Freshmeat Latest Updates

Ajaqs 0.9.7 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134951/

    Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is
    designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It
    aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism
    for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to
    product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a
    Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information
    related to products and services. 

AndroMDA 2.02 Final 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134896/

    AndroMDA is a code generation framework that follows the model driven
    architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool and
    generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other). 

Battlemech 1.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134926/

    Battlemech is a game in which you steer a mech from a top-down view in
    various arenas. A lot of weapons and powerups are available. It is
    meant to be played on a LAN, but you can play against bots, too (though
    the bots don't score). It is based on an advanced version of the Quake
    engine and written in QuakeC. 

Buildtool 0.14 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134965/

    Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more
    portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system. 

CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0-5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134957/

    CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the
    Academy of Sciences in Beijing. 

Clustered JDBC 1.0beta10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134933/

    Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides
    transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to
    any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application
    without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been
    successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL,
    SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more. 

Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.20rc1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134980/

    CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating
    systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution
    for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley
    command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol
    ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The
    Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket
    (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced
    functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript
    Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support
    real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that
    supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A
    customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP
    Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript
    files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON,
    HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters. 

CVSGnome 0.4.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134989/

    CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a
    systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source
    Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This
    script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources.
    When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu. 

CycleAtlas 0.8 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134903/

    CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a custom road atlas. It can be
    used to store or to plan new rides. Functions includes generation of
    planimetry, profiles, and route time tables of rides. A map editor is
    included, in order to create a custom road map. 

Damn Small Linux 0.4.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134899/

    Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux
    distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a
    functional and easy to use desktop. 

DCGUI-QT 0.2.19 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134936/

    DCGUI-QT a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client. 

Digital Tester 0.5 ALPHA 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134940/

    Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test
    management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party
    tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results,
    allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have
    bugs. 

DotPHP 0.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134931/

    DotPHP is framework similar to ASP.NET. It contains FormForge, Web
    components, NuSOAP, and PHPBaseClasses. 

Dr. Geo 0.9.8 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134945/

    Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that uses GTK. It allows you
    to create geometric figures and interactive manipulate them within
    their geometric constraints. 

DSPAM 2.6.5.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134938/

    DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It
    masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and
    filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which
    provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam
    service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens,
    each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined
    to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to
    a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success
    rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives. 

evelin 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134906/

    Evelin is a Linux distribution based upon Mandrake. Its main purpose is
    to be kept secure and small, while providing the basic functionality
    that system administrators might need. It runs within its own chroot
    jail. 

FLEX-db 3.0.6.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134891/

    FLEX-db is an enterprise digital asset manager. It takes and links
    metadata with files, creates thumbnails, and processes files using
    business rules. It has a JSP client, Java app server for file input and
    output, and an EJB metadata layer. 

FreeBSD JDK 1.4.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134900/

    This is the offical FreeBSD port of Sun's Java Development Kit,
    including compilers, a run-time environment, appletviewer, and standard
    Java executors, the Java debugger, and more. 

g3data 1.4.0rc2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134966/

    g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned
    graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image
    formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file. 

Gtk2-Perl 0.97 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134897/

    Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The
    bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to
    the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate. 

Guis widget server 1.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134983/

    Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for
    widget requests (in the Python or Ruby scripting languages), and emit
    replies or events in textual lines (e.g. Lispy, XML or plain token
    syntax). It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and
    scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to
    delegate the user interface to another process. 

H2O Rotisserie 1.1.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134977/

    H2O is a system that supports gathering people around ideas. In
    addition to the traditional features of learning management systems,
    H2O includes support for collaboration between projects through the
    sharing of syllabus elements and through joint discussions between
    projects. It also supports Rotisserie-structured discussions, which
    provide an alternative to traditional online discussion boards by
    structuring the timing and flow of discussions. It can be used as a
    traditional course management platform, but it can also be used for
    more informal projects centered around the exploration of a set of
    ideas, whether the project be a conference, an ongoing public
    discussion, or a traditional academic course. 

Haystack Snapshot 0820 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134946/

    Haystack is a powerful tool designed to enable each and every
    individual manage all of her information in the way that makes the most
    sense. By removing the arbitrary barriers created by applications that
    only handle certain information "types", and recording only a
    fixed set of relationships defined by the developer, users can define
    whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of
    information they find most effective. Such personalization of
    information management will dramatically improve your ability to find
    what you need when you need it. 

HTTP-WebTest 2.04 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134976/

    HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local
    Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a
    detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its
    functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test
    types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes
    with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with
    third-party plugins. 

ImTask 1.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134893/

    ImTask is a set of Ant tasks for sending Instant Message notifications.
    It currently supports AIM (TOC protocol), XMPP/XMPP Secure (Jabber),
    and MSN. 

iTab Pro QuickNavBar 2.30 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134905/

    iTab Pro QuickNavBar is a high-speed, multi-level, scalable topbar
    navigation tool. As well as tabs and switchbars, it includes deep
    multi-level frame-crossing drop-down menus and an optional search
    interface. 

ITracker 2.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134928/

    ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support
    multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features
    such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components,
    detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports
    with charts, configurable field values, customizable project level
    fields, pluggable authentication, a built-in scheduler, and email
    notifications. 

Jaffm 0.9.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134917/

    Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for
    Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It
    is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will
    have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a
    simple but elegant user interface. 

Java XTools 1.06 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134955/

    The Java XTools are an extensive collection of enhanced functions and
    features for Java and Java 3D. It includes an enhanced BranchGroup
    Node, object loaders for Renderware .rwx files and Caligari TrueSpace
    .cob and .scn files, RotationInterpolators for combinations of the X-,
    Y-, and Z-axes, enhanced keyboard navigation, and a text to texture
    converter. It also includes functions and classes for images and PNG
    files, a ByteArrayReader, data download including a disk caching
    mechanism, and enhancements for Swing components. 

Jaxor 3.3 Beta 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134961/

    Jaxor is a simple but powerful tool for creating an object to
    relational mapping layer. It allows developers to painlessly insert,
    update, and delete rows from tables, but can be expanded on to create
    an extensible mapping layer that creates a full domain model,
    transparently mapping to database tables. 

KAON 0826 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134956/

    KAON is an ontology management infrastructure targeted at business
    applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy
    ontology creation and management. Persistence mechanisms of KAON are
    based on relational databases. 

Lame Node System 0.6-10 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134948/

    Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files,
    pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input. 

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-09-05 (Pattern Definitions)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134970/

    This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application
    (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as
    HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run
    on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port
    numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure. 

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.2.0 (Linux 2.5/2.6 patch)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134968/

    This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application
    (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as
    HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run
    on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port
    numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure. 

lin-seti 0.7.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134987/

    lin-seti is a command line program allowing the user to mantain a cache
    of work units for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. It should run without any
    problem on Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is designed to be
    fully compatible with SETI Driver (similar software for Windows), so
    you can share the same cache on dual boot systems. 

Linux FreeS/WAN 2.02 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134978/

    Linux FreeS/WAN provides IPSEC (IP Security, which is both encryption
    and authentication) kernel extensions and an IKE (Internet Key
    Exchange, keying and encrypted routing daemon) as well as various rc
    scripts and documentation. It is known to interoperate with other IPSEC
    and IKE system already deployed by other vendors such as OpenBSD,
    Cisco, or CheckPoint. It also features Opportunistic Encryption, subnet
    extrusion, and with the appropriate patches interops nicely with
    Microsoft Windows XP/2000 using X.509 certificates. 

Linux Test Project ltp-20030905 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134943/

    The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull,
    and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open
    source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and
    stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual
    testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests. 

Mod Four 1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134888/

    Mod Four is a modified version of the default theme in the Kahakai 0.4
    release. 

Open Office Software Development Kit 1.1 Release Candidate Three 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134950/

    The Open Office Software Development Kit is an add-on for
    OpenOffice.org. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for
    programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions
    (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org. 

openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.22-1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134985/

    openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel
    allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware.
    openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to
    modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI,
    Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between
    nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance. 

OpenVPN 1.4.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134972/

    OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private
    Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private
    networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. OpenVPN's
    principal strengths include wide cross-platform portability, excellent
    stability, support for dynamic IP addresses and NAT, adaptive link
    compression, single TCP/UDP port usage, a modular design that offloads
    most crypto tasks to the OpenSSL library, and relatively easy
    installation that in most cases doesn't require a special kernel
    module. 

P2P-Radio 1.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134925/

    P2P-Radio is a peer-to-peer audio (MP3) and video (NSV) broadcasting
    system that features freeloader detection, stream signing, SHOUTcast
    support, an easy-to-use GUI, and a separate monitor application which
    displays the current structure of the P2P network. 

Pen 0.10.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134901/

    Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such
    as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the
    outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes
    clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and
    scalable performance. 

PHPGenerator 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134927/

    PHPGenerator is a homepage generator which supports creation and
    editing of homepages without any knowledge about HTML. Nevertheless,
    different HTML tags can be added manually or by using the functionality
    of the generator. 

PircBot 1.2.4 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134915/

    PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily.
    Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC
    events, flood protection, DCC chat, file resuming, ident support,
    multiple servers, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is
    suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full
    documentation is included, and the Web site contains a 5-minute
    step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot. 

Prima 1.12 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134914/

    Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development.
    Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11
    workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit
    contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image
    processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves
    identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM. 

Process Change Detection System 2.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134973/

    Process Change Detection System is a script to monitor changes in
    processes--not to monitor if your Web server is still running, but to
    see if there are new programs running. When debugging a honeypot
    logging, you often see that there's an extra inetd running, to open up
    a backdoor port. Or, less dramatically, people login to a system and
    "forget" to logout. 

PyGantt 0.9.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134935/

    PyGantt reads a project description from a xml formatted file and
    outputs a html Gantt diagram. 

Qastrocam 3.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134984/

    Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux
    device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a
    telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device.
    It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do
    long exposure (several seconds) captures. 

qjackctl 0.0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134981/

    Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server
    daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is
    written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using
    Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK
    daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way
    to control of the status of the audio server daemon. 

Rabid Rabbit 1.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134979/

    Rabid Rabbit is a 2D arcade style shoot 'em up. On each of its sixteen
    levels, you are required to get sheep to safety while avoiding and
    killing everything that is out to get you. It is controlled using a
    mouse. 

Recovery Is Possible! 6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134932/

    Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy
    boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of
    filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS,
    HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of
    utilities for system recovery. It also has PCMCIA, RAID, LVM, and
    Ethernet/DSL/cable/PPP/PPPOE network support. 

S tar 1.5a23 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134910/

    Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
    POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives.
    Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It
    saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can
    restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for
    speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive
    sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags,
    automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition,
    automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and
    special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental
    backups. It includes the only known platform independent
    "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The
    "rmt" server from the star package implements all
    Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client
    from any OS to contact any OS as server. 

schedtool 0.95 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134918/

    schedtool can be used to alter or query a process' scheduling policy
    under Linux. The O(1)-sched-patch is required to take full advantage of
    it. All scheduling modes of Linux are supported. 

Scrubber 0.0-2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134988/

    Scrubber is a server-side, high performance, extendable,
    SMTP-independent mail content filtering system. It supports global,
    per- domain, and per-user configurations with caching support. Any
    number of configuration storage mechanisms are supported through the
    plugin interface. It supports anti-virus scanning, whitelist/blacklist
    matching, Bayesian probability scoring, and attachment blocking.
    Clients exist for SMTP-level integration in the common client-server
    architecture. Additional clients can be created for any mailer on any
    platform. 

Sentinel IRC Services 2.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134939/

    Sentinel provides statistical and operator services for EFnet, IRCnet,
    and Dalnet IRC daemons. It supports Hybrid/Comstud (5, 6, 7, comstud
    1.x, CSr, csircd, ircd-ratbox), IRCnet 2.10.x, and Bahamut. It features
    a StatServ, a SplitServ, flood protection, customized HTML output, a
    Jupe service, and a number of drone/clone tracking tools. It fully
    supports many Hybrid 6 and 7 extensions. 

SiouX 0.2.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134913/

    SiouX is an HTTP server developed mainly for use in Linux. It supports
    CGI/1.1, and forks off children to serve connections. It is designed to
    be fast and easy to use. 

SlackCheck 2.80 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134941/

    SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with
    the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine
    though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of
    non-standard packages for every machine. 

slashem 0.0.7E3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134967/

    Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack -- Extended Magic) is a variant
    of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more monsters,
    more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races,
    shopkeeper services, and techniques for you to use, and invisible
    objects and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK
    windowing interface and higher resolution tile sets as options. 

Snownews 1.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134912/

    Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that
    comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and
    2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. 

Sound Juicer 0.5 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134954/

    Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and
    automatic tagging of files. 

STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.3.16 (Earlgrey Linux)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134909/

    Franki and Earlgrey Linux are proof-of-concept Linux distributions for
    small and embedded-class systems whose configuration is controlled by a
    loosely-knit suite of scripts designed to produce utility toolchains,
    known as STUBS. STUBS (the Toolchain and Utility Build Suite) is driven
    by an easily-tailored set of configuration files and acquires the
    requisite sources by download. Subject to runtime dependencies, it is
    capable of working within the Franki Linux environment. 

SuaveDNS 0.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134907/

    SuaveDNS is a set of Perl and PHP programs which allow DNS
    administrators to easily add, remove, or update zones with an easy to
    use Web-based control panel. The DNS server is DJBDNS, and the data is
    stored in a MySQL database. 

Support Information Tracker 2.0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134929/

    Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations.
    Features include multiple document versions, group permissions,
    document submission reviews, and many more. 

Sussen 0.6 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134942/

    Sussen is a security scanner which remotely tests computers or other
    devices and provides a report on their vulnerabilities. It features
    Python-based security tests, a GNOME interface, a GNOME-DB backend, and
    customizable reports. 

The Distribulator 0.6.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134944/

    The Distribulator is an SSH-based command execution and file transfer
    utility. It includes support for both batch and console mode, XML
    configuration, multiple server enviornments, and auditing via syslog.
    The Distribulator is meant to be distributed computing for the rest of
    us. 

The Distributed Library Project 0.4.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134958/

    The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's
    books and videos, an experiment in creating community and sharing
    information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest
    enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users
    are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by
    proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is
    available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an
    eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books
    on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return
    them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall
    "score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of
    a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and
    collaboritve filtering. 

The Singularity System 2003.09.05-alpha 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134895/

    The Singularity System allows developers to easily create applications
    and web services based on service definitions expressed in XML schema
    language. It allows any program developed with it to become
    "pluggable", meaning that parts can be swapped out at
    runtime. "Method calls" in the form of messages can be sent
    either to local code or code mounted on remote machines. 

Virtual Object System 0.12.1 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134908/

    The Virtual Object System (VOS) is an infrastructure and collection of
    applications for building a multiuser object-oriented virtual reality
    for the Internet. An abstract messaging layer (the VOS core) provides a
    powerful abstraction, presenting a peer-to-peer distributed system as a
    single unified whole. The 3D client (Ter'Angreal) enables any number of
    users to interact in a virtual environment by communicating with one
    another and by modifying and building onto the virtual environment
    itself. This projects aims to realize the vision of a free 3D immersive
    Internet. 

Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.31 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134975/

    VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just
    chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging
    within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet,
    interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The
    Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of
    the Internet. 

WaveSurfer 1.5.3 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134953/

    WaveSurfer is a sound visualization/manipulation tool for novice and
    advanced users, with a simple and intuitive user interface. It can be
    adapted to different tasks, such as speech research and education,
    speech/sound analysis, and sound annotation/transcription. You can also
    make more advanced/specialized applications by extending it with custom
    plugins or embed WaveSurfer components in other applications. Its
    flexible interface handles many different file formats, and it runs on
    many flavors of Windows and Unix. It also supports encoding and Unicode
    with unlimited file size, and more. 

Wipe Release Candidate 0901 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134947/

    Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the file or files to be
    destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk
    access, in order to lessen the chance of data recovery using techniques
    such as magnetic force microscopy. 

WTP 0.6.2 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134904/

    WTP is a Web-based FTP client that features bookmarks, uploading,
    downloading, deleting, moving, and renaming of files and directories.
    It allows administrators to limit the hostnames to which users can
    connect. Currently only Unix FTP servers are supported. 

X-ChaMan 0.7.7 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134923/

    X-ChaMan is a chapter manager for AVI/DIVX movies. It can display an
    easy-to-use GUI menu providing a choice of language (for BIVX) and
    chapter selection. X-ChaMan runs with mplayer or Xine. 

Xaraya 0.9.1.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134502/

    Xaraya is extensible, Open Source software written in PHP. It utilizes
    robust permissions, data management, and multilingual systems to
    dynamically integrate and manage content. Its modular,
    database-independent architecture introduces tools which separate form,
    function, content, and design. 

XEmacs 21.5.15 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134916/

    XEmacs (formerly known as Lucid Emacs) is a powerful, extensible text
    editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of
    GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to ate
    with recent versions of that product. XEmacs stems from a collaboration
    of Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University of
    Illinois with additional support having been provided by Amdahl
    Corporation, INS Engineering Corporation, and a huge amount of
    volunteer effort. 

YASM 0.3.0 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134902/

    YASM is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler. It is designed from
    the ground up to allow for multiple syntaxes to be supported (e.g.,
    NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats.
    Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module. 

Yorick Maintenon Branch 1.5.22 
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134952/

    Yorick is a language for scientific computing à la
    Matlab/Octave. The Maintenon Branch is an enhanced version of Yorick,
    supporting true color image display and printing, extended C type
    support, support for compiled extensions in dynamic libraries, and
    readline binding. 


       

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